I woke up totally refreshed and I'm pretending to be the
kid-in-a-coconut-shell-tiger-costume

This Instant Hotel Tropica

Right now I am parting
the fan-like branches of several large
plants at one side of the lobby
I woke up totally refreshed
and I'm pretending to be the
kid-in-a-coconut-shell-tiger-costume
Running, clanking, sneaking...
Across the room I see a guy down from down the hall
He looks like Clark Kent, only with sunken cheeks
from the lack of many teeth
He is looking up from his morning paper and coffee
He is wearing an ice-frosted glass derby
He says it alleviates his toothache pain
As I move toward the back of the Hotel
I pass through a small hallway
to the right of the office window
As I open a back door the sun,
vibrant plant life and ocean mist
roll into me like a warm grizzly cub
There is not much of a crowd here today
I am enjoying the silence
Looking out across the well manicured lawn
Then orange sun into the orange
behind my eyelids' morning, on and on...